[Mark]

I've have been one of those old fogeys that resisted OS changes until the programs I wanted to run forced me to upgrade. When I went from win95 to 98se, then to XP and now on Vista, I always set everything to bare minimum to be as close as possible in looks and feel to win95. No themes or any kind of special layouts. I have the clock and my Zonealarm icon down in the right corner and my most accessed programs on the desktop. No quicklauch bar or search bars, tabbed browsing or any of the myriad of extra tools or desktop graphics.

Just finished doing my tax returns, got some help for con coding in my project and now I'm sitting back in my comfy chair and enjoying some hot ham sandwiches.

aaaahhhh what a great day

[Sangman]

JoJo the Idiot Circus Boy, on 13 April 2013 - 01:31 PM, said:

Sang is right. It had more to do with the fact that banks and other agencies were using two digits for the year to save space. So instead of 1999, they would just write 99 in their spreadsheets and shit. It really wasn't that big of a deal and really showed that the general populace knows dick all about computers.

Wrong as well, programmers all over the globe spent timing patching systems. That's why "nothing happened".

There is at least one similar issue in the future which is year 2038... that's when the (usually) integer value used for timestamps (ie. amount of seconds passed since 1 Jan 1970) will overflow which could cause problems. I believe that work is already being done to store the value in a 64-bit variable instead which merely delays the problem, but at least it does so to a time when humans will long be extinct (probably).

[Hank]

Sangman, on 14 April 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

but at least it does so to a time when humans will long be extinct (probably).

can't wait for this. Mother Earth in it's eternal virginal state of emptiness. Ah, yes. Something to look forward too.

[Mark]

Technically not virginal. The rape has already occured. According to the tree hugging hippies.

[Hank]

Once the evil specie homo sapiens are no more, mother earth will witness a complete rebirth, ergo become a virgin.
According to Greenpeace Water division or whatever derivative I heard that from. I think is was about whales? Can't remember.

[Master Fibbles]

Yes, the tree hugging hippies who didn't take "No" for an answer from the trees...think of all the trees which have been violated by free-loving hippies.

[Jimmy]

Sangman, on 14 April 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

Wrong as well, programmers all over the globe spent timing patching systems. That's why "nothing happened".

Not wrong. That's why it wasn't a big deal and the general populace didn't know dick all. It was an easy fix, albeit a potentially tedious one.

[Kathy]

But it would be a big deal if nothing was done beforehand.

[Hank]

it is a safer to ride in the far east (by far I mean totally brainless)
http://bostonglobe.c...c24L/story.html
I quote:
The couple felt that such games [arcade] had no place in public rest stops, and the state Depart­ment of Transportation agreed. After receiving an ­e-mail from the Hyams, the Massachusetts agency removed nine violent games from service plazas in Charlton, Ludlow, Lee, and Beverly.

[Sangman]

 Cathy, on 14 April 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

But it would be a big deal if nothing was done beforehand.

Yeah which is my point.

[Master Fibbles]

If the same type of problem were to happen now, it could be a rather big deal. In 1999 not nearly as much was dependent on computer chips as is now. Grant it, I'm not sure how much the date matters in a lot of things but the way people rely on smart phones and GPS, who knows what could happen is the date was 1913.

[Kathy]

Then you should wait for 2038. Some industrial systems are still being installed with a 32-bit timestamp.

[High Treason]

I have yet to encounter a system that isn't "Y2K Compliant" - I have never patched any of mine, but they all had no problems when Y2K came. Nor did any of the software they were running.

My point still stands, these people clearly used outdated systems and nobody had forward thinking until it was almost too late.

@Jeff; Perhaps CPU encoding does have better quality, but as it's not in realtime I doubt it makes much difference and I certainly don't notice any. Given that it's for internet videos I'm not that fussed anyway as it usually gets compressed to death by YouTube and the main priority is usually getting them rendered quickly and using as little bandwidth as possible for the upload. Everything local is done with 8-Bit or 10-Bit AVI Files with no extensive encoding or compression.

[Jeff]

 High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

@Jeff; Perhaps CPU encoding does have better quality, but as it's not in realtime I doubt it makes much difference and I certainly don't notice any. Given that it's for internet videos I'm not that fussed anyway as it usually gets compressed to death by YouTube and the main priority is usually getting them rendered quickly and using as little bandwidth as possible for the upload. Everything local is done with 8-Bit or 10-Bit AVI Files with no extensive encoding or compression.

Oh, I forgot about the whole Youtube thing.

[Kathy]

 High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

My point still stands, these people clearly used outdated systems

You'd be surprised how many still do. In some companies there was whole Windows XP infrastructure still operating on SP2. And they were forced to go to SP3 only because of a timezone update that wouldn't install on SP2. Or I know systems that are 20 years old for example.

[Master Fibbles]

I have heard that you used to be able to run the entire NASA program on a modern day laptop. The shuttles were running software from the time they were built (I think coded in Fortran or something).

[Sangman]

 High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

I have yet to encounter a system that isn't "Y2K Compliant"

Well, it's 2013. Obviously now you wouldn't.

[Radar]

http://en.wikipedia....rathon_bombings

Two bombs went off at around 2:50 pm EDT today in Boston. Two dead, 100 others injured. They aren't sure what the motive was yet. My heart goes out to the families hurt. Zaxtor will make a thread about this before the day is over.

[Sangman]

A tragedy indeed. While on some level I do feel bad for the people involved in this...

<insert comment about this stuff happening in other places almost daily with nobody caring, not to be a smartass but to make one think>

[Fox]

That's why guns should be banned!!

[Inspector Lagomorf]

I think we'd be better off banning people.

[The Commander]

 Speedy Eggbert, on 15 April 2013 - 01:42 PM, said:

Zaxtor will make a thread about this before the day is over.

You read my mind!

[Hank]

Lelisa Desisa won that race.

[Lunick]

[Person of Color]

I <3 my tarantula.

[Jimmy]

I like mine more.

[Person of Color]

Oh my God what the fuck did you do to your hair?

[Jimmy]

It's a mohawk and I was too lazy to put it up.

[blackharted3]

Do you what I'd really like? to have like an hour long interview with George and Randy, and really tear into them, in a sense and ask all these lingering questions about DNF, and all of the old builds, and why this was removed and what happened to this, what happened to that, and get some straight answers. I didn't Randy say he has access to all things Duke Forever? How? I thought that older stuff was gone and just abandoned.

Just things we all wanna know etc.

[Person of Color]

 Duel, on 17 April 2013 - 12:11 PM, said:

Do you what I'd really like? to have like an hour long interview with George and Randy, and really tear into them, in a sense and ask all these lingering questions about DNF, and all of the old builds, and why this was removed and what happened to this, what happened to that, and get some straight answers. I didn't Randy say he has access to all things Duke Forever? How? I thought that older stuff was gone and just abandoned.

Just things we all wanna know etc.

LOL you actually believe words that fall out of the dick holster Randy calls a mouth?